Where can I purchase reasonably priced rubber flooring?
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Where can I purchase reasonably priced rubber flooring?
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Tractor Depot horse mats. Puzzle pieces are for kids and autistic people.
I don't care what shape they are. I just want something reasonable for my first home setup bro.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/4-ft-x-6-ft-x-3-4-in-thick-rubber-stall-mat
They all cost the same price, put a towel under your weights when deadlifting if you're that cheap.
>cheap
It's just recycled rubber and it's just flooring. It shouldn't be expensive.
Why are you asking for reasonable priced rubbering flooring then moron??
Reasonably priced means best quality to cost ratio.
I need a different store fellas, it seems like they won't do standard delivery to my house and overnight is $70. Too far to pick up too.
You can drive around your fancy German car and wear gucci loafers everywhere yet don't have a feed store or agricultural supply store?
So build the gym in your barn. Are you saying you don't have one of those either? Must suck to be a city slicker.
My car is Japanese and my shoes are Chinese bro.
Well la dee da Mr. Park Avenue manicure.
Using roadie for deliveries sucks unless its a lawnmower.
Rent a truck from Menards or homosexual depot, shit ask a buddy to help you out.
You can fit absolute max 6 rolled up in a large SUV, 4 in a midsize.
With gas and tolls it'll be $70 anyway so I might as well do delivery. Not going to bother with horse mats for this price.
Enjoy your toxic fumes.
Just bite the bullet and get the rubber floor tiles online or at your local hardware store, I've been using mine for like 4 years now and they're great
To elaborate, the horse stall mats are meant for use in horse barns, ie outdoors. They offgas toxic chemicals that aren't good to breathe in a small space like a basement gym
The puzzle floor mats aren't that much more expensive anyway
>The puzzle floor mats aren't that much more expensive anyway
Fair enough, but who is selling them cheaply these days?
do not get the autism tiles, not only do they not really protect anything because theyre to thin, they also compress while loading them with weight which is detrimental to your lifts
throw them in the sun for a week to get the volatile compounds to offgas faster.
Bought horse mats for my basement gym, threw them in the summer sun for 2 weeks zero smell at all.
I've heard about that, I decided not to chance it when I made my home gym. Grandpa died of lung cancer and all that.
I don't drop weights tho so maybe thinner rubber mats aren't feasible for others as they are for me. Your choice really
Regardless the puzzle ones work great and are worth the extra expense imo
>Regardless the puzzle ones work great and are worth the extra expense imo
Where should I buy them? The home depot ones don't look too great.
I'm sure you could order them online from a home improvement store and pick them up at the store itself. I had to look at a couple before finding the ones I was looking for, I don't remember if it was home Depot or menards
Friendly reminder to get the free radon testing that most states offer.
homosexual
They are stored outside and by the time you get them have no fumes. If they do leave them in the sun. They are the best by far. Any one who tells you to get some random rubber tiles is a fricking moron. I've been through all of it.
At your local Bunnings
Budget a layer or two of 3/4" cheap plywood to put under the mats. The plain stall mat alone isn't enough to stop ear shattering drops and floor damage. You can bolt your rack into it too for stability.
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Flooring-Gym-Flooring-Gym-Floor-Tiles/Foam/N-5yc1vZc4oeZ1z0utj5
Thanks anon
>foam
>no options thicker than half inch
Yup, stall mats win again
There's rubber ones though.
I only brought up the foam page. There are more options there if you follow the categories backwards.
Do NOT get foam. Get rubber
Been a week bros the smell is almost gone
It's only smells.
I try to warn people but then people because I grew up around horses but then some dork without even a home gym bursts into the thread to say I'm wrong.
OP here, yeah I'm not getting those. But I'm still hunting around for reasonable prices.
Are you coating the whole floor with tiles or just putting it under a rack? Because if it's just the rack, building a platform is more practical and protects the floor better. 2 layer of the cheapest 3/4" shit, glue the thinnest nicer piece you can find on top. You really don't even need rubber on the platform. It's nice if it's there but it's not essential. Olylifters drop shit on wooden boxes.
See this video about "dropping weights"
If that's not suitable, buy some nonstinky flooring at home depot and put it on top. You don't even need a lot because you have the platform absorbing most of the shock. This shit here is solid rubber, 1.25" thick and $2.66 a square foot while being intended for indoor use. You wouldn't want to lift standing on it but your barbell can slam on it just fine.
I see the difficulty you're having though. Google gym flooring and all you see are idiots suggesting stall mats and they're not even saving money with it.
>Are you coating the whole floor with tiles or just putting it under a rack?
I'm just putting it under a rack. Plus a little extra. I only need them for around a 10'x5' space altogether. I'm decent at woodworking so I'll look into making a platform instead.
>solid rubber
>You wouldn't want to lift standing on it
why not, is it still not solid enough?
>idiots suggesting stall mats
Its because anyone who actually does any work on them and has tried your gay little rubber tile suggestion knows better
whats the price difference between horse stall mats (recycled rubber) and regular rubber tiles?
My point is that they're meant for closed rooms regardless of what money you save. Oh my god a garage in the summer with stall mats...
You only "need" the thick rubber where the barbell touches the floor anyway. The rest can be OSB plywood because the wood absorbs shock very well and OSB is meant for bearing load so no warping. Then for top layer, you either put thinner rubber over it to stand on (ghetto solution) or glue a nice board on top to make it "professional." Then you shouldn't be dropping shit from the top anyway unless you're a serious oly guy. And again, the plywood alone does most of the job.
Usually the guys shilling horse mats are just using a tiny bit of it so it's bearable and then they just lie and say there's no smell at all. A large amount would just be unbearable.
not meant*
If you want to coat the entire room like a mini crossfit gym then you don't need thick shit anyway. As long as it's not foam (squishy) then it's fine. They use those diamond tiles a ton.
>Oh my god a garage in the summer with stall mats...
Is what I have and its fine. I even work on cars in mine, no issues. What are you all 50lb women or something?
Dawn dish soap and water will help immensely.
Where the frick are you all buying these? Straight from China or something? The ones I buy are made in Canada and are stored outside. Didnt smell even from day 1.
I don't get the whole leaving it out so the odor is gone. when I went to Tractor Supply Co. the mats were already outside when I backed my truck up
Only the mat on the top of the pile gets any sunlight
The tractor supply mats that are $50 were $12 not so long ago
you're still paying $2/sq ft even if you put up with the off-gassing
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Is $19 for one 2'x2' 1/2" interlocking mat reasonable? I won't ever be dropping the weight intentionally but the floor is tile and I wanted to protect it.
https://www.americanfloormats.com/performance-lock-rubber-tiles/
Anyone?
if there's a bit lots in your town you can buy this shit cheap as hell there all the time, as well ass other random ass free weights and kettle bells and shit.
You don't need rubber flooring. Just don't drop the weights.
I don't drop weight ever, but the floor is tile so I don't want to damage it accidentally.
How are you supposed to clean these?
>Rubber Flooring! My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Rubber Floors!
>There's four places. There's the Rubber Floor Flotila, that's on third.
>There's Rubber Floors-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Feet-There, that's on third.
>Ache-y Arches... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the Rubber Floor complex on third.
>In the Rubber Floor District
>You know, there's a little place called Mary Ann's Rubber Floors. The nice thing about that place is Mary Ann gets on the floor with you!
The frick?